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Accelerator research and development

Here you can read up on the progress of our future projects BESSY-VSR – the upgrading of BESSY into a variablepulse-length storage ring – and bERLinPro – the prototype of an energy recovery linear accelerator. Both projects are aimed at securing HZB’s future as a unique location for photon-based research. This triad of in-house research is reflected in the close connection between energy materials research and the use and evolution of the photon source BESSY II.

In the autumn of 2015, construction commenced for the new accelerator hall of bERLinPro, where a compact test facility for an energy-recovery linac is being built. HZB thus took another important step on the path to realising a technologically unique project.

The particle accelerator team at HZB can now operate the synchrotron radiation source with two simultaneous electron paths. Packets of electrons can travel along it and emit intense light pulses at the experiment stations. HZB is the first to enter this new territory and at the same time has reached another milestone in its BESSY-VSR project.